11th Amazon Film Festival

27- 31 June 2026 in London

We’re beyond excited to announce the 11th Amazon Film Festival and its intercontinental tour, taking place from May 19th to June 12th 2026. The Festival will visit 4 countries, 7 cities, and 15 cultural spaces, including cinemas, theatres and museums, showcasing a curated selection of films that explore the multi-faceted voices of the Amazon through indigenous, riverine and urbanised cultures of the forest peoples.

Rio de Janeiro, Niterói, London, Rome, Venice, Lausanne and Geneva will showcase 20 movie titles, including short and feature-length documentaries, animated and fiction films, so we can provide the world with a glimpse into the rich cultural, social, and environmental heritage of the region while exposing important aspects of the largest terrestrial ecosystem and biodiversity on the planet.

Check London’s programme below:

PROGRAMME

Yanuni + Q&A

Part of Planting Seeds
Richard Ladkani, Brasil, Áustria, EUA, Alemanha, 2025, 112m.

Wednesday 27 May at 6pm @ The Garden Cinema

Juma Xipaia from the Brazilian Amazon represents the Indigenous leaders who remind us what it means to live in harmony with the Earth. Her courage, wisdom, and leadership inspire a global movement to defend nature, culture, and community.

Yanuni, the award-winning and critically acclaimed documentary that tells Juma’s story, is a testament to the power of Indigenous voices and the hope they carry for our shared future.

The screening will followed by a discussion with Juma Xipaia, who will join us online straight from the Amazon and Brazil Matters.

This is the closing screening of the 11th Edition of the Amazon Film Festival, and the first London Edition of the Festival.The Amazon Film Festival is an independent initiative dedicated to the dissemination, exchange, inclusion and cultural education of film, established in 2005.

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Vision Summit
May
27
to Jan 27

Vision Summit

Part of Planting Seeds
Richard Ladkani, Brasil, Áustria, EUA, Alemanha, 2025, 112m.

Juma Xipaia from the Brazilian Amazon represents the Indigenous leaders who remind us what it means to live in harmony with the Earth. Her courage, wisdom, and leadership inspire a global movement to defend nature, culture, and community.

Yanuni, the award-winning and critically acclaimed documentary that tells Juma’s story, is a testament to the power of Indigenous voices and the hope they carry for our shared future.

The screening will followed by a discussion with Juma Xipaia, who will join us online straight from the Amazon and Brazil Matters.

This is the closing screening of the 11th Edition of the Amazon Film Festival, and the first London Edition of the Festival.The Amazon Film Festival is an independent initiative dedicated to the dissemination, exchange, inclusion and cultural education of film, established in 2005.

Apart from promoting the region, its people and its culture, the Festival puts the Amazon on the agenda in a wide variety of settings, thereby fostering surprising encounters between various cultures and northern Brazil, connecting ideas and people through cinema.

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